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It is one thing to go after a couple emulator teams where expertise is concentrated, that at least is a plausible bottleneck. But open source did open source things so forks appeared and development has continued in various forms. And now with AI the expertise is available to everyone so we are getting into “suing individual Napster users” territory. That is not to say that Nintendo won’t make some examples of people developing jailbreaks or doing recomps but it won’t fundamentally stop it from happening.

Nothing described here seems illegal as opposed to merely annoying? I guess on some level “everything is wire fraud” but that was the case even without AI.

This is very similar to https://electionbettingodds.com/ which has been doing this for decades at this point.

To show off? Like whatever you think of it the market for supercars is rich men who want to show off so Tesla is playing in that market.

This is completely normal. Banks underwrite large loans and then package a bunch of them in different ways to sell to different investors.

There is all the difference in the world with a rogue agent going off and choosing to delete critical files and a human using an agent to implement a suboptimal backup strategy, and then being surprised pikachu when it fails.

And this is different in what substantive way to the western system? The vast vast majority of ordinary Chinese will never interact with their national security state. This reads as you saying I’m right without saying I’m right.

It will provide Anthropic a great blog post next month to push banning open weights.

I’d suggest that one of the key innovations of authoritarian control over the populace in the 21st century vs the 20th is that surveillance and compute means the authoritarian states don’t need to use the brute force of the legal system against the average person to keep power. They can focus only on key targets while not molesting the broader population in the same way the Stasi et al did. I’d go so far as to say for the typical American and the typical Chinese their experience of the legal system is virtually identical, in that they don’t experience it. But for those targeted by the system, the precise mechanism may vary but the certainty of the outcome does not.

And I’m saying that three felonies a day and the way China does it are fundamentally the same thing with different window dressing.

Let’s be honest it’s funnier as written.

That was precisely my point. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” is the fact of how western legal systems work, the rule of law is a tale that they tell to impressionable schoolchildren.

This is a feature not a bug in the system. But for a lot of idealistic young law students learning that will make them deeply uncomfortable

Facebook successfully becoming a frontier lab was not on my bingo card for 2026, but the more competition the merrier I guess. We will have to see just how benchmaxxed this is but beating Astra and Fable is not easy.

It has some major technical flaws which hold it back even on modern hardware. Something I’m sure a model can fix.

I think one of two things is more likely: either at some point the bottom falls out on the $1T/year datacenter capex we have today, or it doesn’t and eventually supply will enormously expand as new fabs being planned today eventually come online.

I am well aware of “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”. Just that this is clearly not that.

I mean substantively this seems like just fraud based on what I read. He defrauded Spotify of $8m in ads with bots

Yeah read to its extreme the DMCA abolishes personal property so long as it contains electronics. The electronics have copyrighted firmware or software, and any attempt to use them in any way the manufacturer deems unfit for any reason whatsoever is a felony. There is but one law: might makes right.

I don’t think the constitution protects reverse engineering. It’s just a couple court rulings from the 80s and 90s.

The option will be vexatious litigation to make some examples. It’ll probably work too, at least long enough for this whole AI reverse engineering transformation to piss off enough companies to lobby Congress to outlaw reverse engineering

The concept of Muse is I think where things are going but there's no way I'm letting Zuck of all people run an AI agent for me. Either I'd use Hermes with some ZDR provider on openrouter (the compromise choice during the hardware crisis) or a self-hosted model.

I think the solution is instead to require purchases to hit a hard harness restriction, so you must click yes for money to be spent.

I for one am happy that more people will be able to play their single player videogame in the way that they want to.

By unfriendly I mean publishers who sue modders for millions of dollars. They clearly will not benefit from this shift.

I for one am excited for the golden age of game modding that is coming. People like to talk about “commoditize your complement” and in this case I expect modding friendly publishers to reap the rewards of this dramatic shift.

Yup. HNers (and so many normies) believe that there are well defined rules they can follow and be safe. Spoiler, there is one law in the real world and that is might makes right, and you have no might, so therefore you will never be right. China for its many flaws at least is honest about this.

Yes the bubonic plague was terrifying for the pre-modern old world but in the 21st century it is easily countered with common antibiotics.

At least in Economics one of the first things you learn is “all models are wrong but some are useful” and that frames a good way to think about research in general. No result will ever be flawless or without warts and the important skill is to figure out what matters and what doesn’t in a particular context.

Did you not read the GP at all? Florida currently pays $11B more than it receives from the feds. Since it is a large state this is percentage wise close to break-even but your claim is provably false.